"I've Never Heard Anything Like It": Was America's Top Secret Stealth Bomber Just Spotted Over Kansas?

AI Authoritarianism: A Government Without Constitutional Brakes Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, "United States AI companies must be free to innovate without cumbersome regulation." - President Donald Trump, Executive Order 14365 The era of small government is over. Anyone who tells you differently is selling you a lie. Case in point: Donald Trump promised to shrink the federal government. But what if Trump's pledge to cut the federal work force wasn't really about eliminating government bureaucracy but outsourcing it to the AI tech sector? What if Trump, with the backing of a...

Iran Destroyed 20% Of Pentagon's MQ-9 Reaper Drone Fleet: Report Via Middle East Eye Iran has destroyed $1bn worth of MQ-9 Reaper Drones, or roughly 20 percent of the US's pre-war inventory of the sophisticated unmanned aerial vehicles, according to a report by Bloomberg on Friday. The report said that many of the drones were downed by Iran in flight, but that others had been destroyed on the ground when Iran targeted US military bases in the Gulf. via AFP The MQ-9 is both a surveillance drone and capable of carrying a payload, typically Hellfire missiles...

The Bretton Whoops Authored by 'No1' via Gold and Geopolitics substack, The bombs make headlines. The economic unraveling happening quietly underneath them don’t. So before we get back to the daily carnage, let's talk about money. It used to be funny, in a rich man's world. The world didn’t wake up one morning and decide to distrust the dollar. It was a process. Gradually, then suddenly, as these things tend to go. It started with Venezuela. In 2019, Caracas asked the Bank of England to return its own gold - 31 tonnes, sitting...